NPV mode en target / initiaor

[a.auvinet]

Bonjour,

• I have 2 fabric SAN with  brocade

• I have 2 nexus 5548 with  Npv mode enable connected to brocade

• More servers are connected to nexus in FcOE / 10g/b etherne

All works fine.

Today, stokage system is connected in natif  FC on Brocade 

All works fine.

I would like to connect a Netapp system storage (Target ) on Nexus Nexus 5548, which are in NPV mode .

I don't find if it's possible to do this.

Cdlt,

[Walter Dey]

Salue !

A N5k in NPV mode is a HBA concentrator, not doing any FC/FCoE switching; which is done by your Brocade (Cisco calls this NPIV mode).

see http://www.dasblinkenlichten.com/npv-and-npiv/

No, this is not possible; you have to connect your NetApp to Brocade as well.

Walter.

[a.auvinet]

Hi Walter,

Ok, thanks you.

I have a other question :

My nexus are in NPV mode

- I would like enable the feature npiv, can I enable npiv  on Nexus 5548 when npv is already activate ??

    > It's for esx

- If yes, when i enable npiv on nexus 5548, is  the nexus reload ?

Cdlt,

[Walter Dey]

I would like enable the feature npiv, can I enable npiv  on Nexus 5548 when npv is already activate ??

NO !

NPV and NPIV are complimentary technologies. You can only have one or the other !

In most cases, you would have enable NPV mode on your edge/access switch, which could be something like a MDS 91xx.

Enabling of NPV mode is disruptive (Reboot)

Then to take advantage of NPV mode on the 91xx switch, you would enable NPIV on your core director (MDS 9506/9509/9513). 

Enabling NPIV on the 95xx director is not disruptive (no reboot), enabling NPV mode on the 91xx requires a reboot of the 91xx.